πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core MP.1
🚀 Challenge puzzles
Make sense of problems and keep at them (puzzles that need thinking, not a known method)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 26 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 40 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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3A farm has chickens and cows: 6 heads and 20 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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4A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 28 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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5A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 42 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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6The pattern keeps going: 17, 24, 31, 38, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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7The pattern keeps going: 11, 17, 23, 29, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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8The pattern keeps going: 8, 11, 14, 17, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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9A farm has chickens and cows: 7 heads and 16 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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10A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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11The pattern keeps going: 4, 10, 16, 22, … What is number 10 in the pattern?
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12A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 28 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 7
- 3. 2
- 4. 6
- 5. 5
- 6. 80
- 7. 65
- 8. 35
- 9. 1
- 10. 6
- 11. 58
- 12. 2
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